I really like that Legal’s at Kendall Square. Halley does too. It was there - that we sat while our Wm. Morris agent went and met with Hayden softwrae and bought back the rights to Videoworks.   The year was 1985. The rest is history. That was AFTER Guy Kawasaki went behind our back and gave them $100k just to pay them off.  Guy was always such a nice guy. One problem - no more ‘bluefish pate’! 

We just love Alf Eaton - we’ll support anything he does - and vice versa.  Alf was the first guy to enlighten me to open source microcontent tools.  Thanks Alf!

Dooce (Heather Armstrong) discovers Amsterdam. The possibilities are mind boggling.  This entry talks about the Dutch language and uses NIEWEZIJDS VOORBURGWAL as an example.  Funny - that’s the street where the first hash bar I hung out at was located.  It was called the Drin un Druit (In and Out) - so all the American ex-pat smugglers could run out the back when the cops came in.  Huge chunks of hash sat on the bar for anyone to try out.  That was what open source was back then.  The year was 1975.  31 years ago.  That’s also where I first heard Graham Parsons.

OH MY GOD - have you heard about the web server on a USB stick?  Thank you - David Walker and eHome Upgrade for the pointer. 

Thsi segues well to the time when I had my epiphany on home servers.  And desktop client servers.

It was at Dave Winer’s house - when he lived next door to Joan Baez and three dorrs down from John Doerr.  His front yard was the San Andreas fault - and that’s how tumultous the epiphany was.

I’m still recoiling from that.

Did you know the original name for DLAs - was “server-in-the-closet”?  But all the VCs thought we were building hardware.

Anyway Dave had this thing called Frontier - and he was ‘upstreaming’ onto the web.  “Dam - home intelligence” - I thought.  Jump forward 10 years to Gnomedex last year - when Dave first showed his new OPML tools.  “And each server can have it’s own intelligence” - I blurted out.

Yup - home servers - like Orb - are here to stay.  And now you can take them with you, and build it into your car or vest for that matter.

Newsforge has an article on Wordpress plug-ins.  I think everything we do from now on - will be or have a WP plug-in aspect, vehicle, code library or actually extension.  My favorite nowadays is ’structuredblogging.org’ - which is just starting to rock and roll.

Watch for custom CSS style sheets, APIs and get this - actual end-user human benefits!

Thank you PubSub.  And thanks to Dave Sifry, Tantek Celik and Niall Kennedy for all their enlightened support - as well.

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